भेदभाव
November 20, 2016
My religion is nobody else’s business, says CJI Thakur
PTI Reports:
The relationship between man and God is “very personal” and should be “nobody else’s business”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said today as he stressed on tolerance for peace in society.
More lives have been lost in religious wars than due to political ideologies,...
November 20, 2016
गुजरात के पूर्व बीजेपी विधायक राजीव ओजा ने भाजपा अध्यक्ष अमित शाह पर गंभीर आरोप लगाए हैं। ओजा का कहना है कि आठ नवंबर से पहले तक अमित शाह नोटों बदलने के धंधे में शामिल थे। ओजा का कहना है कि उनके पास अपने आरोप साबित करने लिए वीडियो रिकार्डिंग है।
ओझा ने प्रधानंमत्री नरेंद्र मोदी को लिखी एक खुली चिट्ठी में नोटबंदी के फैसले पर उनकी जम कर आलोचना की है और कहा है कि यह देश को मूर्ख बनाने का कदम है...
November 20, 2016
Gujarat manhole deaths: High Court seeks details of what state govt has done to compensate kin by Dec 7. Petition by Manav Garima Trust
Images Courtesy: Counterview (Jitendra Rathod)
The Gujarat High Court has asked the state government pleader to obtain details of the “follow up action” taken, pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court for...
November 20, 2016
Demonetization: South Gujarat farmers protest, warn Modi, it will lead to failue of winter crop due to cash crunch
Farmers from across south Gujarat districts choked Surat city roads on November 19 as a mark of protest against demonetisation and the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) decision restricting majority of the cooperative banks from dealing with the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000...
November 19, 2016
Earlier this year, Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that the PMO website , www.pmindia.gov.in should be made multilingual in order to effectively highlight various initiatives of the government.
Previously it was available only in English and Hindi. In May 2016, Minister of External Affairs, Sushma Swaraj launched 6 language versions of PMO
India’s website viz. in...
November 19, 2016
A powerful statement of solidarity between concerned Indians, Hindu and Muslim, South Asian Americans and others against the growing Islamophobia manifest in the United States after the Donald Trump victory has been issued.
The text of the Solidarity Statement:
We issue this statement as concerned Hindus, South Asian Americans, and members of the AMEMSA (Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim,...
November 19, 2016
On November 16, Teesta Setalvad was invited to deliver the K.G.Kannabiran Memorial Lecture in Madurai by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties(PUCL).
The full text of the lecture cam be read here.
Excerpts
Land Acquisition, Forest Rights Act and Labour Laws
Apart from this assault on civil and political liberties, this regime –coming to power as it did backed by...
November 19, 2016
An influential South-Asian rights group has terminated its ties with a major US airlines alleging that it was carrying out racial and religious profiling of Muslims, Arab and South-Asian passengers on its flights reports PTI.
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"Southwest (Airlines) employees have been racially profiling Muslim, Arab, and South Asian passengers in the last year, including at least...
November 19, 2016
गांधीनगर। गुजरात में उत्पीड़न के मामले में न्याय के लिए धरना दे रहे दलितों की सुनने के लिए राज्य की बीजेपी सरकार बिल्कुल तैयार नहीं है। न्याय की आस में दो महीने से अनशन पर बैठे परिवार ने अब हारकर मुख्यमंत्री से इच्छामृत्यु की मांग की है।
दरअसल गुजरात के उना तहसील के आकोलाली गांव निवासी लालजी काणाभाई सरवैया को 2012 में उनके ही घर में जिंदा जला दिया था। इस वारदात को सवर्णों ने...
November 19, 2016
'The presidency is about many things,' groups declare in letter to president-elect. 'Chiefly, it is about setting an example through your leadership.'
President-elect Donald Trump "must repent, take responsibility, and challenge those who have been emboldened by his words, and he must also change the direction of his policies that undermine the cause of justice and civil...